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Life Won't Wait

1998 studio album by Rancid From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Life Won't Wait
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Life Won't Wait is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid. It was released on June 30, 1998, through Epitaph Records. It was released as the follow-up to ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995).

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Writing and production

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Around early 1997, still riding high off of the success of ...And Out Come the Wolves, Rancid decided to immediately enter the studio following the ...And Out Come the Wolves tour to record the next album. The recording of Life Won't Wait took place in the United States (from San Francisco to Los Angeles, New York City, New Orleans) and Jamaica. Two of the songs were recorded in Kingston: "Hoover Street" and the title track, "Life Won't Wait". With the cooperation of numerous Jamaican reggae artists (such as Buju Banton) is very distinctive on this album, not just in the vocals, but also in instrumental parts, which all makes Life Won't Wait very different from most of the other Rancid releases. It is also the only album to date not to feature producer/engineer Brett Gurewitz in any capacity, with Armstrong and Frederiksen opting to produce it themselves. However, as Armstrong noted during his appearance on the podcast One Life, One Chance with Toby Morse, Gurewitz sequenced the album.[3]

During the writing process the band had recorded over 50 songs, many still unreleased. For the album, Brett Gurewitz helped pick the songs to be on the record and also help sequence the final album.[3] "Little Rude Girl" as recorded, but ended up being a song on Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards album.[4] Some of the released non-album tracks ended up on singles, compilations, and the B Sides and C Sides collections. The song "Emelia" was co-written by Vic Ruggiero and recorded during these sessions. The song was later re-written and featured on Vic's first solo album in 2001. The cover photo pays homage to John Lennon's Rock 'n' roll and Neil Young's After the Gold Rush cover designs.

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Promotion

"Bloodclot" and "Hooligans" were released as the album's singles along with music videos for each song while "Who Would've Thought", which also had a music video, was released as a promotional only single. Music videos for "Backslide", "Crane Fist" and "Leicester Square" were also released.

Reception

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Life Won't Wait was released on June 30, 1998, and was the last Rancid album for 16 years to be released through Epitaph Records until Honor Is All We Know (2014). After its release, the band moved to frontman Tim Armstrong's label (a sub-label of Epitaph), Hellcat Records, who released their next album, 2000's Rancid. Although not as successful as ...And Out Come the Wolves, the album peaked at number 35 on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it one of Rancid's highest ranking albums.[12]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described the album as having a ska influence. He praised the music as a "powerful slice of old-school punk — as powerful as any of their records" and claims "it actually sounds a lot like ...And Out Come the Wolves". The album received a rating of three and a half out of five stars.[13]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Tim Armstrong, except where noted.

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Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

  • Thomas Johnson (music producer) – percussion, engineer, mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Jerry Finn – mixing
  • Jim Albert – engineering
  • Robi Banerji – engineering
  • Albert Cayati – engineering
  • Michael "Cooley" Cooper – engineering
  • Kevin Dena – engineering
  • John Ewing, Jr. – engineering
  • Grace Falconer – engineering
  • Lior Goldenberg – engineering
  • Cappy Japngie – engineering
  • Walter Mauceri – engineering
  • Spencer Ledyard – engineering
  • Steve Mixdorf – engineering
  • Jonathan Mooney – engineering
  • Michael Penketh - engineering
  • Ronnie Rivera – engineering
  • Michael Rosen – engineering
  • Kevin Smith – engineering
  • Rohan "Jimjay" Stephens – engineering
  • Claus Trelby – engineering
  • John Tyree – engineering
  • Howard Willing – engineering
  • Joe Zook – engineering
  • Jesse Fischer – artwork, photography
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Charts

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References

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